Eva McCauley is a painter and printmaker known for her atmospheric, expressive oil paintings of sky, water and shifting landscapes that explore the passage of time and the transient and ephemeral nature of the spiritual and physical world. She is also a figurative artist, and is fascinated with the human condition, and the fragility of our existence. She divides her time between her studios in Bear River, N.S., and Elmira, Ontario, painting people and places that are steeped in personal significance.

She is known for vibrant, colourful paintings that seamlessly merge abstraction with figuration. Her  paintings are enigmatic and evocative psychological takes on the traditional landscape genre, describing atmospheric, expressive paintings of sky, water and shifting landscapes that incorporate human figures.

Her work explores the process of recollection and how we process memories. Her focus is not on the recreation of a specific image or moment, but the creation of something informed by the act of remembering -- an act which renders past experiences as ephemeral, and constantly in flux, resulting in works which perpetually shift, their images lyrical, ghost-like, and ethereal.

She studied visual art at the Ontario College of Art and Design, receiving an O.C.A.D. diploma in drawing & painting (1983), a B.F.A. from University of Guelph (1994) and a M.F.A. from University of Waterloo (1996).

She is also an art educator, and was a sessional professor of Fine Art at the University of Waterloo from 2002 to 2020.

She has exhibited internationally and nationally, with solo exhibitions at Galerie-Pere-Leger-Comeau at U. Ste. Anne, in Church Point, N.S., (Ruptured Landscapes, 2022); Elora Centre for the Arts (Splendid Isolation 2022), ArtsPlace Gallery in Annapolis Royal, N.S., (Splendid Isolation, 2021), St. Thomas Elgin Art Centre (World’s Edge, 2014);  Wandesford Quay Gallery in Cork (In/Visible, Aug/Sept. 2012); Limerick Printmakers (In/Visible, August/Sept. 2010); Elora Centre for the Arts, Elora, Ontario, and Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo (Solas agus Scáth‎, 2009),   Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery (Momento Mori); Open Studio, Toronto (Ruptured Time); Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto (Colour of Memory, Mutable as Water, Gaze); and solo and group exhibitions at Harbinger Gallery, Waterloo; Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery 2nd Biennale (2005); and the Castellani Museum in Lewiston, N.Y. (Crossing Borders). She was invited to include two of her paintings in a group show "Reflections" at the UNB Art Centre in 2023, and the 2 works were subsequently purchased to become part of the UNB Art Centre Permanent Collection.

Her work is included in collections in Canadian Embassies all over the world and is part of a Canadian boxed set collection sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

McCauley is the recipient of many awards and scholarships, including the W.O. Forsythe Painting Award (1983), Bronfman Printmaking Award (1993), Warner Lambert Printmaking Scholarship (1994) "Best in Printmaking Award" at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (1996), "Ernst & Young Purchase Award" (1996), a Canada Council "Quest" Grant for Emerging Artists (2000), as well as an Ontario Council Project Grant (2007). Her work can be found in many private and public collections such as the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Waterloo Regional Labour Council, the Ernst & Young Canadian Print Collection, and, in 2022, the NS Art Bank. She recently received an Art NS Creation Grant in 2022 to create a new body of work: Ruptured Landscapes.

She is looking forward to showing her current series of paintings "Ruptured Landscapes" at the Rotunda Gallery, Kitchener City Hall, in March and April 2024.

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